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Tag: Leadership
Deliver Faster by Limiting Work in Progress
Software development teams have always struggled to deliver features within the timeframe that businesses and customers expect. A recent BCG study found that over a third of respondents’ internal software development projects were delayed. Late delivery delays ROI and frustrates everyone involved. Organizations face numerous challenges when accelerating software delivery, but one stands out for its outsized […]
The Feedback Fix: How to fuel a learning culture
Traditional feedback methods, like the sandwich approach or harsh criticism, are being replaced by more effective feedback strategies that focus on excellence, real-time reactions, and coaching-style interactions to build organizational learning and intelligence.
Data and Generative AI: A Window into Your Organisation’s Soul?
Harvard Business Review Analytic Services has conducted sponsored research to gain insight into how organizations are currently using data, with a particular focus on its application to generative AI. The resulting report, titled “Scaling Generative AI for Value: Data Leader Agenda for 2025,” examines trends across various industries and companies worldwide. Prior sponsored research with […]
Gamifying Digital Transformation: Drive Adoption Through Engagement
Digital transformation can offer organizations improved efficiency, enhanced customer experiences, and the ability to stay competitive, but the journey is often fraught with challenges. One key hurdle is motivating employees to embrace new technologies and ways of working. An innovative approach to overcoming these challenges is gamification, a strategy that uses game-like elements to engage […]
Governing by Enabling: A Strategic Approach to Data Governance for Executives
Balance security with innovation – seamlessly integrate compliance controls behind intuitive self-service capabilities to empower data-driven productivity and agility.
Navigating Strategic Partnerships: Aligning Legal, Procurement, and Business Priorities
When leading strategic initiatives, executives are often tasked with bringing on new partners or negotiating new contracts to drive critical business outcomes. Whether you’re onboarding a key technology vendor, a manufacturing partner, or a strategic consulting firm, you need to manage the often competing priorities of various internal stakeholders. Three of the most crucial—yet frequently […]
Learning and Cloud Technology: Capitalising on India’s Superpowers
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. —Brian Herbert, Author When I was 10, my parents bought me a Sinclair ZX81. The slim plastic-encased computer had a stick-on keyboard and a precariously attached memory pack. Programs were saved on cassette tapes. […]
The Power of a Question Mark
Dive deep into individual experiences beyond data metrics to uncover blindspots and build lasting trust by focusing on customer needs – a compelling case study on embracing change while preserving core values.
Overseeing AI Risk in a Rapidly Changing Landscape
With AI’s rapid evolution, boards face multi-faceted risks requiring diverse oversight, technical expertise, agile risk-mitigation, clear values guiding deployment, and robust cybersecurity – proactively managing uncertainties while capturing AI’s transformative potential.
Does Your People Strategy Match Your Transformation Objectives?
Unlocking innovation demands aligning talent strategy with organizational aspirations; an oil company’s overlooked compensation model discouraged risk-taking, undermining its transformation goals until leadership revised employee stock rewards.